About Cloudflare
Cloudflare provides CDN, DNS, DDoS protection, serverless computing, and security services used by millions of websites and applications. If your application uses Cloudflare for DNS, CDN, or any of their edge services, monitoring Cloudflare's status is essential to understanding your own availability.
What Alert24 Monitors
Alert24 tracks the following Cloudflare services through their official status page at cloudflarestatus.com:
- Cloudflare CDN — Content delivery network performance and availability
- Cloudflare DNS — DNS resolution services
- Cloudflare Workers — Serverless computing platform
- Cloudflare Pages — Full-stack web application hosting
- Cloudflare R2 — Object storage service
- Cloudflare D1 — Serverless SQLite database
- Cloudflare KV — Key-value storage at the edge
- Cloudflare Durable Objects — Stateful serverless computing
- Cloudflare Queues — Message queue service
- Cloudflare Workers AI — AI inference on the edge
- Cloudflare AI Gateway — AI model proxy, caching, and rate limiting
- Cloudflare Vectorize — Vector database for AI applications
- Cloudflare Hyperdrive — Database connection pooling and caching
- Cloudflare Browser Rendering — Headless browser rendering API
- Cloudflare Zero Trust — Security and access management
- Cloudflare Stream — Video streaming infrastructure
- Cloudflare Images — Image optimization and delivery
- Cloudflare Static Assets — Static file hosting and delivery
How to Set It Up
Step 1: Create a Service
If you haven't already, create a service in Alert24 to represent your Cloudflare dependency (e.g., "Cloudflare CDN" or "Cloudflare DNS").
- Go to Services > Add Service
- Name it (e.g., "Cloudflare CDN")
- Save
Step 2: Add a Status Page Check
- Go to Monitoring > Add Check
- Select Status Page Check
- Search for "Cloudflare" in the provider list
- Select the specific Cloudflare services you depend on (e.g., CDN and DNS)
- Link the check to the service you created in Step 1
- Click Create
[Screenshot: Selecting Cloudflare services]
Step 3: Add to Your Status Page (Optional)
If your customers should know about Cloudflare's status:
- Go to your Status Page settings
- Add the Cloudflare service you created
- Customers will see the real-time status of your Cloudflare dependency
What Happens When an Issue is Detected
When Cloudflare reports an incident on their status page:
- Alert24 detects it within minutes of the status page update
- Your service status updates — The linked service (e.g., "Cloudflare CDN") changes from Operational to the appropriate status
- You receive an alert via your configured notification channels
- Your status page updates if the Cloudflare service is listed on your public status page
- When Cloudflare resolves the issue, Alert24 detects the resolution and restores your service status
Common Scenarios
Your site uses Cloudflare as a CDN
Monitor Cloudflare CDN. If Cloudflare's CDN has issues, your static assets and cached content may be slow or unavailable.
Your DNS is on Cloudflare
Monitor Cloudflare DNS. DNS issues affect every service behind your domain.
You use Cloudflare Workers or Pages
Monitor Cloudflare Workers and/or Cloudflare Pages. These are your compute platform — if they're down, your application is down.
You use R2 for storage
Monitor Cloudflare R2. Storage outages affect file uploads, downloads, and any functionality that depends on stored objects.
You use D1 as your database
Monitor Cloudflare D1. Database outages mean your application can't read or write data.
You use Workers AI or AI Gateway
Monitor Cloudflare Workers AI and Cloudflare AI Gateway. AI service disruptions affect any AI-powered features in your application.
You use KV, Durable Objects, or Queues
Monitor Cloudflare KV, Cloudflare Durable Objects, and Cloudflare Queues. These backing services affect session management, stateful operations, and async processing.
Cloudflare Status Page
Cloudflare's official status page: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
This page provides real-time status information and incident history. Alert24 monitors this page automatically — you don't need to check it manually.